Minko Google Globe
The Google Globe is a 3D data visualization Chrome Experiment. We decided to port it to Flash to see how hard it might be and how it would perform. We were genuinly surprised to see that Flash offered better performances an all the configurations we tested. Here is a short video of our Flash port:
Features
Data is loaded from a Qark file instead of the original JSON file: the final size of the data file is only 30% of the original file
Custom effects have been created for the atmosphere and the globe ported directly from the GLSL code of the original project.
Source Code
The source code of this application is available under the LGPL license and can be found on the minko-demo-google-globe GitHub repository.